Lewis Pek Editor
Comment
March 2021
Last month I became invested in a spat with a competitor on LinkedIn. I’d been asked to connect with E-Play Africa’s Adeleye Awakan at the start of February and by the middle of the month he’d posted his latest report on Morocco via their website and LinkedIn. Curious to see what a rival had made of this interesting market, from which it’s tricky to glean information, I spent an incredulous couple of minutes reading the G3 report from April 2019, as copied word for word by Mr. Awakan.
Reaching out to our plagiarist via the platform, my comment was deleted and we were disconnected. I took images of the stories back-to-back and posted my own LinkedIn comment asking: “I’m really not sure this is okay?” I received lots of support from the community and a bunch of comments sharing stories of copyright theft and plagiarism. Several comments showed that Mr. Awakan had engaged directly with them and eventually he reconnected with me. He was sorry for any “inconveniences” caused, but continued to claim that the article was his own work. Using Microsoft Word’s ‘compare documents,’ 90 per cent of the articles were identical. Adeleye’s own work consisted of re-typing our story.
REACHING OUT TO OUR PLAGIARIST VIA THE PLATFORM, MY COMMENT WAS DELETED AND WE WERE DISCONNECTED
The discussion continued with E-Play Africa’s editor, Iwo Bulski, who maintained the premise that the report was in large part Awakan’s work, before admitting: “Our reporters are quite limited on the subject of gambling in Africa at the minute - we use your information not only about Africa, but in our world news section.”
You can still read our Morocco report on Mr. Bulski’s website - and a large chunk of our news and additional reports too. Not quite sure when we became affiliated with his business, but I’m looking forward to the royalties cheques arriving soon. I’m also sure it’s a coincidence that our website has repelled several denial of service attacks since this began and we’ve had to add Recaptcha to our automated subscriptions service due to thousands of spurious sub-requests pouring into our subs department from incredibly dubious sources. First time for all these things and good to know our security is tight. Though it is a coincidence, right?
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